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National Geographic April 1997

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Fig Trees { Borneo’s Strangler Fig Trees}
These tropical giants often kill their hosts, but their fruit sustains myriad island animals.
Australia’s Dog Fence { Traveling Australia’s Dog Fence; Traveling the Australian Dog Fence}
Stretching across the outback, the 3, 300- mile barrier protects sheep from dingoes – – but poses ecological dilemmas.
Special Places: The Yellowstone { Yellowstone River; The Yellowstone, The Last Best River}
Tumbling out of Yellowstone National Park, one of the West’s last undammed rivers carves a fantastic landscape on its way to meet the Missouri.
Moscow: The New Revolution
Free enterprise is changing the complexion of Russia’s cosmopolitan capital.
Oil on Ice: Economic Boon, Environmental Disruption- -Alaska Weighs the Problem
After 20 years, Alaska’s North Slope gusher is slowing down, and the industry has its eye on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Hubble Telescope { Hubble’s Eye on the Universe; Time Exposures: The Hubble Telescope Views the Universe From Space}
Astronomy’s unmatched eye records the fringes of the universe from earth’s orbit.

National Geographic February 1989

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The Great Yellowstone Fires { Yellowstone: The Great Fires of 1988}
Last summer’s conflagrations were but a chapter in the long natural history of Yellowstone National Park, but they ignited national debate over the hands- off fire- fighting policy of the Park Service. David Jeffery reports.
Pioneer Photographer William Henry Jackson { The Life and Times of William Henry Jackson: Photographing the Frontier}
He packed several lives into his 99 years – – artist, Union soldier, bullwhacker, and pioneer photographer whose first- ever pictures spotlighted the frontier West, including Yellowstone. Rowe Findley and photographer James L. Amos portray a prolific man
At Home in Chicago’s Hancock Center { At Home in the Hancock Center; Chicago’s Hancock Center}
In Chicago the world’s sixth tallest building can claim a title that most of its competitors cannot – – a place to live. A. R. Williams and photographer Lynn Johnson profile a multiuse giant.
Small- Town America: An Endangered Species?
Griffin Smith, Jr. , reflects on a way of life that is passing. Forty years of photographs from the annual workshop of the University of Missouri School of Journalism mirror the changing and the changeless.
Skyscrapers: Above the Crowd { Skyscrapers}
Escaping horizontal congestion, these tallest of buildings are soaring monuments to the skill of architect and engineer. William S. Ellis and photographer Nathan Benn explore the towers, top to bottom.

National Geographic August 1981

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The Untamed Yellowstone
Fishermen and farmers, industrialists and Indians battle over the dividing and possible damming of the waters of one of the nation’s last remaining wild rivers. By Bill Richards, with photographs by Dean Krakel II.
Maya Art Discovered in Cave { Maya Art Treasures Discovered in Cave}
Recently revealed glyphs and paintings attract scholars to a Guatemalan cavern for new insights into the culture’s golden age. Unfortunately, looters come too. Staff archeologist George E. Stuart and Editor Wilbur E. Garrett report.
Sharks: Magnificent and Misunderstood
Amazing learning abilities, surprising mating practices, and extraordinary sensitivity to electric and magnetic fields are among recent discoveries about the ocean’s most feared predators. Marine biologist Eugenie Clark and photographer David Doubilet e
Molokai- -Forgotten Hawaii
This small rural island where the action isn’t is beginning to draw tourists and developers – – and divide the people who live there. By Ethel A. Starbird, photographs by Richard A. Cooke III.
Finland’s Capital Has Its Heart in the Country { Helsinki: City With Its Heart in the Country}
Known globally for human- rights accords, Helsinki interlaces city skylines with rustic parklands for its half a million people. By Priit Vesilind and photographer Jodi Cobb.

National Geographic December 1978

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Ancient Ebla Opens a New Chapter of History { Splendor of an Unknown Empire: Ebla; Ebla: Splendor of an Unknown Empire}
Excavators in northwestern Syria unearth a great city called Ebla, seat of a realm that rivaled the mightiest early civilizations, writes Howard La Fay. Photographs by James L. Stanfield, paintings by Louis S. Glanzman.
Crossing the Atlantic by Balloon { [Double Eagle II] Leaps the Atlantic; [ Double Eagle II] Has Landed! }
Three enterprising Americans, Ben L. Ambruzzo, Maxie L. Anderson, and Larry Newman, describe their pioneer flight to Europe, a feat that eluded aeronauts for more than a century. With photographs by Double Eagle II crew and others.
Ontario: Canada’s Keystone
David S. Boyer and Sam Abell travel from metropolis to muskeg across the province that pulses as the heartland of Canadian unity.
Epitaph for a Killer? { Total Victory Over Smallpox? ; Smallpox- -Epitaph for a Killer? }
After an all- out global war, smallpox threatens no more, reports Dr. Donald A. Henderson, who led the successful campaign. The only live smallpox virus now left is held in laboratories. Photographer Marion Kaplan records the final victory in Africa.
Winterkeeping in Yellowstone
When tourist throngs leave and the snows come, R. Steven Fuller and his family stay behind to guard shuttered cabins and lodges above the Yellowstone River. It’s a lonely life, but full of beauty and special reward.
Thor Heyerdahl Sails in the Wake of Sumerian Voyagers { [Tigris] Sails Into the Past}
In a ship of reeds based on craft of 5, 000 years ago, explorer Thor Heyerdahl follows the wake of forgotten Sumerian mariners. Carlo Mauri and other crewmen photograph the voyage.

National Geographic January 1973

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Studying Wildlife by Satellite
In a spin- off of the space program, biologists equip a Yellowstone bear with a radio- transmitter collar and temperature probe and monitor the animal within its den from space.
California’s San Andreas Fault
Two great slabs of Earth’s crust collide along a 700- mile fault system that bisects California, causing sometimes fatal earthquakes.
This Changing Earth
Volcanoes erupt, earthquakes shudder and, new land forms – – all the result of the movements of Earth’s crust.
Leakey, Louis S. B. : The Leakey Tradition Lives On { The Leakey Tradition Lives On}
The Society’s President pays tribute to the late scientist whose fossil finds rewrote the prehistory of man in Africa.
A Scientist Visits Some of the World’s Oldest People { Search for the Oldest People; Every Day Is a Gift When You Are Over 100 }
A professor at Harvard University Medical School searches for the secrets of old age in three places where longevity is commonplace: Vilcabamba, Abkhazia, and Hunza.
Ethiopia’s Artful Weavers
Former farmers, the Dorze – – a minority of 20, 000 in a nation of 25 million – – turn a traditional craft into a commercial enterprise.
Alaskan Family Robinson
A young couple and their two children take to the bush to construct cabins, harvest local game and berries, and relish the wilderness experience.
High, Wild World of the Vicun?a
A cousin of the camel, the graceful vicuna of the Andes has suffered from man’s desire for its silky wool coat. Recent land preserves and domestication efforts have halted the animal’s decline.

National Geographic May 1972

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Have Excavations on the Island of Thera Solved the Riddle of the Minoans? { Thera, Key to the Riddle of Minos}
A volcanic cataclysm gutted Thera and devastated nearby Crete, and according to the author’s theory, snuffed out Minoan culture in the ancient Mediterranean.
Cairo, Troubled Capital of the Arab World
Egypt’s city of the ages copes with overpopulation, poverty, a plague of flies, and the explosive discord in the Middle East.
The Spider That Lives Under Water
Capturing bubbles of air at the surface, the water spider forms a dome of air held down by a web, creating an underwater hatchery for its young.
Yellowstone at 100 { The Pitfalls of Success}
Summertime congestion at Yellowstone National Park points up the dilemma of how to provide for a growing public while preserving natural wonders.
Yellowstone at 100 { The Next 100 Years: A Master Plan for Yellowstone; A Master Plan for Yellowstone: The Next 100 Years}
The director of the National Park Service unveils suggestions for providing facilities without sacrificing wilderness at Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.
Yellowstone at 100 { Ageless Splendors of Our Oldest National Park}
A photographic portfolio exposes the timeless forms of Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone at 100 { A Walk Through the Wilderness}
Following a 250- mile circuit young hikers explore the vast and little known outback of Yellowstone National Park.
Living in a Japanese Village
An inn on Futagami Jima, an island in the Inland Sea, serves as a window on traditional Japanese life, quickly vanishing under the impact of technological revolution.